To improve performance, they remove suspected deficiencies with surgical precision. Overriding objectives are maximizing earnings and cash flow. Therefore, there is no room for sentimentality; only tough measures will do.

In short, vigorously boost short-term results. Then sell the enterprise with a well-deserved, tax-sheltered profit to some other party that is eager to give optimization another try.

It is about time we applied this proven corporate problem-solving to our society's woes. Take for instance the staggering 47 percent parasitic segment of our nation's population. These folks may have been of value in the past when they were active in the workforce or provided military services for this country. But since they subsequently turned into habitual non-performers, shamefully leeching off government programs, they need to be confronted with relentlessness.

Romney's impeccable business practices are widely proclaimed. So is his unselfish, patriotic drive to minimize taxes for higher income earners to help job creation and aid federal deficit reduction. Add to this his unambiguous, unwavering political convictions, and there emerges the quintessential candidate to clean house in Washington.

Who says government couldn't be run like a business? After all, corporations are people.

In a commendable attempt to clarify what U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock of Indiana tried to say about abortion and rape, Doblin has unwittingly stumbled into a muddle of his own. Of the slaying of two children by their nanny, he said, "God had nothing to do with it."

Excuse me, but God is said to be all-powerful. That means that he is definitely involved in the nanny slaying, as well as in rapes, the Holocaust and in everything else that happens. We just do not know what his plan is — assuming he exists, if he is indeed all-powerful and if he even has a plan.

Given this mystery, can we all not, therefore, just leave God out of politics and instead settle problems with common sense and basic decency?